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Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Change the hardware radio enable logic and cleanup code

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Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> Just that you are aware of it:
> This is a racy access to the radio_hw_enable variable, as we don't take
> the mutex here (we can't and we don't want). But it's OK, since nobody
> cares if the LED is racing for a second and displays the wrong state
> for a second.
> Same goes for the phy->radio_on access.
> 
> The patch is ACKed by me.
> 

Thanks for the heads-up on the raciness of the access. I'm still learning what can and cannot be done.

Larry

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